Schooner Vocabulary
Dictionary of Boating Terms

Baggywrinkle: - chafing gear made from old ropes

Baggywrinkle is the "scruffy-looking padding
used on shrouds to prevent chafing. chafe against the spreaders or shrouds,
wearing away the sail to the point where it could rip in a big blow.

All
you need is a ball of marline and some old rope. Middle a twelve foot piece of
marline , hook it over a nail in your work area and secure the bitter ends about
a foot apart. Now chop up any rope you have into piece of about 6". Careful
separate the pieces into strands. Now placesa strand crosswise underneath
the marlin bring each end up and over though the center as shown. Now grasp both
end of the rope strand and pull them towards the nail. Each strand is jammed
close to the proceeding one. When you have made enough trim the strands to an
equal length. It is applied to rigging by seizing the end in position and
winding it spiraling the desired distance

Hervey Garrett Smith was the foremost marine illustrator
of the 1950s and 1960s, and his wonderful drawings of traditional
ropework quickly propelled The Marlinspike Sailor to cult classic
status when it was published in 1956. With the addition of a section on
modern, synthetic rope in the 1970s, its popularity has continued
undiminished to this day. It teaches a few basic knots--the bowline,
sheet bend, and rolling hitch, among others--and splices in three-strand
and braided rope. But its real business is decorative rope and
canvaswork--the traditional arts of the sailor--and here it has no
equal. For a rope mat, a rope ladder, a sea chest, a ditty bag, a canvas
bucket, a mast boot, and the best-looking rope fenders or heaving line
in the marina, this is the book of choice.